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“It took Read some twenty years of searching to nail the matter down, but thanks to his efforts we now know that OK first appeared in print in the Boston Morning Post on 23 March 1839, as a jocular abbreviation for ‘Oll Korrect’. At”
― Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
― Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
“Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.”
― Go Set a Watchman
― Go Set a Watchman
“The ‘Sun Says’ section of the paper is the editorial or leader: it states an opinion on the news as opposed to neutrally reporting the facts like the rest of the paper also doesn’t do.”
― Sunburn: The unofficial history of the Sun newspaper in 99 headlines
― Sunburn: The unofficial history of the Sun newspaper in 99 headlines
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